Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection

George Morgan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 1996)
• Original Release Date: August 15, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000002ZAG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,837 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Candy Kisses

2. Please Don't Let Me Love You

3. Rainbow In My Heart

4. All I Need Is Some More Lovin'

5. Room Full Of Roses

6. Cry Baby Heart

7. I Love Everything About You

8. Almost

9. (I Just Had A Date) A Lover's Quarrel

10. There Goes My Love

11. I'm In Love Again

12. You're The Only Good Thing (That's Happened To Me) - George Morgan With Marion Worth

13. One Dozen Roses (And Our Love)

14. All Right I'll Sign The Papers

15. Slipping Around

16. Mr. Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man)

17. Red Rose From The Blue Side Of Town

18. In The Misty Moonlight

19. I'm Completely Satisfied With You

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Giants Of Country, August 12, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection (Audio CD)

Singer, songwriter, and accomplished guitarist George Thomas Morgan, born on June 28, 1924, left us at the tender age of 51 on July 7, 1975. But not before leaving behind for our enduring pleasure and entertainment numerous albums and 35 Country hit singles, registered between 1949 and 1979.

This volume from Razor & Tie, augmented by some great liner notes and discography, presents 15 of his first 17 hit singles for Columbia, omitting only the 1959 double-sided hit Little Dutch Girl, which reached # 20, b/w The Last Thing I Want To Know, which peaked at # 26. But it does include his 1964 duet with Marion Worth on the old standard, Slipping Around [# 23].

They then skip over his last two Columbia charters, Tears And Roses [# 37 in late 1964] and A Picture That's New [# 27 early in 1966], all five of his Starday hits in 1967/68, the best of which was 1968's Sounds Of Goodbye [# 31], the two for the Stop label in 1969/70 [Like A Bird - # 30, and Lilacs And Fire - # 17], and 1971's Gentle Rains of Home, which was a # 68 for Decca.

In 1973, still with Decca, his records were billed as George Morgan Featuring "Little" Roy Wiggins, but the first, Makin' Heartaches [# 62] is also omitted. Later that year Decca became MCA and the first under that label, Mr. Ting-A-Ling (Steel Guitar Man), which reached # 56, is here, as is Red Rose From The Blue Side Of Town [# 21 early in 1974.

His last two MCA hits, billed only to George Morgan, are, however, omitted - Somewhere Around Midnight [# 66 in June 1974] and A Candy Mountain Melody [# 82 in late 1974] - but they do include his first with 4 Star, a cover of the 1964 Jerry Wallace hit In The Misty Moonlight, which topped out at # 65. Another 4 Star hit, From This Moment On, had just made its debut on the charts when he died from a heart attack. It eventually reached # 62. That too is not here.

In 1979 he had a posthumous # 93 duet with daughter Lorrie on I'm Completely Satisfied With You for the 4 Star label [the final track in this volume], and she would then go on to post 34 Country hits of her own to 1997.

Strangely, unlike contemporaries Eddy Arnold and Red Foley who had several Billboard Pop Top/Hot 100 crossovers, just one of his hits made those charts, 1949's Room Full Of Roses, which made it to # 25. Nevertheless, he was a giant in the Country field and received the ultimate honour when inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998.

A little gem from Razor & Tie which could be elevated to 5 stars with a re-issue containing upwards of 28 tracks through the addition of some of those missing hits.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very essential., September 18, 2003

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Cory L. Schwent (Bloomsdale, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection (Audio CD)

This is one of those cd's that I bought the day it was released.

All of these songs are the original versions. Morgan was a super vocalist and stone country.

The booklet is fantastic and this is a very classy reissue.

The only downer is the "fake" duet with Lorrie Morgan. I wish they would have included a sampling of his Four Star recordings made in the 1970's.

Now we all need to pray for a "live at the opry" release similar to the one CMF made on Marty Robbins.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth, February 18, 2000

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Eddie L. Morgan "elm" (Phoenix, Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection (Audio CD)

An excellent collection of some of George Morgan's material. Only Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold can match Morgan's pure voice and smooth delivery. These are great songs from an artist sadly ignored by most. It's hard to find his material yet this man never sang a bad note.